Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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